Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odds stacked against it. Unable to field candidates in a quarter of Brazil's municipalities, MDB was also stripped of a politically potent weapon-television. Under a strict electoral code drawn up by Geisel's Minister of Justice, Armando Falcào, candidates of both parties were forbidden to use TV or radio to speak to the voters. Meanwhile, "public service" broadcasts extolling the achievements of the revolution flooded the air waves. Weighing the opposition's impressive vote against these obstacles, political observers in Brazil now believe the MDB could dominate the 1978 races for Congress...
...version that the fatal stabbing stemmed from hazing. One ROTC officer suggested that the Pershing Rifles were simply conducting unauthorized training maneuvers. That theory raised the question of why only the pledges played the roles of P.O.W.s. As for St. John's, its spokesman noted that hazing was forbidden by the university and New York state...
...Gallo is waiting for notification from the state board, and is legally forbidden to negotiate with any union until they have won an election. The UFW is still urging a boycott of Gallo wines until the election is settled and Gallo has signed a contract with the Farm Workers Union...
Bruce Taylor Odell is an enigma. He calls himself a "quiet man," but he is eager to tell stories. He will preface a story with the admonition "this is off the record, deep background," and then spell out all the names in the forbidden episode. He denies any egocentricity, yet, like most people, he seems to like the sound of his own name. After serving as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative for 17 of the last 25 years, he claims to have "come out" in order to "turn the agency around," but he is reluctant to publicly reveal...
...Iseult's bed are both powerful sharpeners of appetite. This is not artistic news, though the observation is now unfashionable. That being so, whether Marry Me is part apologia or all fictional serrmonette, one of its points could well be dismissed as the higher hedonism in a nutshell (forbidden fizz is always the sweetest). A pity. The book may be a brief for moral absolutism cleverly put in terms that Masters and Johnson might take to heart. Timothy Foote...